Bio

Ben Stopford leads development of ODC, a distributed data technology that sits at the core of RBS’s data architecture.
Farzad Pezeshkpour is Head of Architecture and Engineering for Risk Technology at RBS.
Mark Atwell is Head of Software Engineering for Risk & Finance Technology at RBS. He was previously a Distinguished Engineer at JP Morgan and one of the founding designers of AMQP.

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Re: Perhaps not the best time for this presentation
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Mike Glendinning

To be fair, the failure was on the retail banking side [traditional mainframe and batch applications] rather than the more modern trading systems described here. That said, I wouldn't underestimate the challenges of preserving data availability and consistency in this kind of environment, especially in the presence of non-catastrophic errors that may go undetected for long periods.